長澤蘆雪筆 雪中狗子図襖|Puppies in the Snow
The Met
Artist: Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪(Japanese, 1754–1799)
Date: 1792–99
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Set of four sliding panels mounted as a pair of two-panel screens; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 66 7/16 × 72 1/16 in. (168.7 × 183 cm) Overall with mounting: 68 × 74 5/8 in. (172.7 × 189.6 cm)
Credit Line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Visual Descriptions
AI GeneratedVisual Summary
Brief Description
Two sliding doors, an ink wash scene of puppies in a landscape with hills and bamboo
Detailed Description
The image displays two vertical sliding doors, each framed in black, featuring an ink wash painting on a light, off-white ground. The overall scene depicts a group of puppies in a sparse landscape. On the left door, in the lower left quadrant, a cluster of five puppies is visible. One puppy, mostly white with some darker markings, sits facing forward, looking towards the viewer. To its left, another puppy, mostly white, is seen from behind, looking towards the sitting puppy. Two more puppies, one mostly white and another with darker patches, are engaged in interaction, possibly wrestling, in the lower center. A fifth puppy, mostly white, is partially obscured behind the central group. In the background of the left door, faint, undulating hills are rendered with soft gray washes, and a few small, spiky trees or bushes are visible on a distant rise. A dark, ornate handle is positioned on the left edge of this door, near the top. On the right door, in the lower right quadrant, three more puppies are depicted. One mostly white puppy with a dark patch on its back runs towards the left. Another puppy, with dark patches, is in a possibly rolling posture below and to the left of the running puppy. A third, mostly white puppy, is partially visible behind the running one. To the left of these puppies, a few stalks of bamboo are rendered with light gray strokes, rising from the ground. The background of the right door also features faint, rolling hills. In the lower right corner, a red, square seal with illegible characters is present. A dark, ornate handle is positioned on the right edge of this door, near the top. The painting uses a limited palette of grays and blacks, with the light ground serving as the primary color for the puppies' fur and the sky.
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